frôlent

\fʁol\

/\fʁol\/ verb

The verdict

“frôlent” is uncommon French (frequency #53,362 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#53,362
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de frôler.

Corpus desk

Index FR-frolent · frôlent · French

frôlent · rank #53,362 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #53,362
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH fruitière

Nearest frequency peer: fruitière (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Rangs de longue queue près de « frôlent »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « frôlent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for frôlent
PropertyValue
Headwordfrôlent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\fʁol\
Letters7
Frequency rank#53,362
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « frôlent » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).frôlenttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « fruitière » (#53,361), « fuchsia » (#53,363), « fusionnant » (#53,364). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « frôlent » est au #53,362. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

frôlent is uncommon French at frequency #53,362 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fʁol\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for frôlent, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is frôlent, spelled F-R-Ô-L-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de frôler.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de frôler.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how frôlent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les intérêts adaptatifs n’y sont pas exclus, mais tangentialisés – c’est-à-dire qu’ils touchent ou frôlent ce qui se déroule dans le baquet.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "frôlent"?
"frôlent" is spelled F-R-Ô-L-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \fʁol\.
What does "frôlent" mean?
As a verb, "frôlent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de frôler.
How do you pronounce "frôlent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "frôlent" is \fʁol\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "frôlent" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "frôlent", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list